Star Trek: Enterprise; An alternate history of 21st century's science-fiction.

Choosing a crew - Claudia Black as Captain Florence Reilly
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Florence Reilly

"Meet one of the most unconventional captain of the whole Universe, a model that Kirk was trying to follow through all his career."

"It has to be fun - Bran said. So we began contemplating about character of our captain. You know, it is one hundred years before Kirk. Earth has only several colonies - on the Moon, Mars, Alpha Centauri and missing one in Terra Nova. Space is the Great Unknown for humans. Besides Vulcans, Andorians and Tellarites we did not made first contacts beside finding some ancient ruins. The captain for 22nd century had to be WAY more willing to kick ass than Picard, Sisko, Janeway or even Kirk. She was supposed to be Kirk's childhood hero. In the Sulu episode, in Voyager, Janeway even comments on how much fun it would have been to ride shotgun with Kirk and Spock. While we did not intend to copy whole ideas from earlier series, we wanted to show Kirk's childhood hero, captain who show disregard for her own life in event of danger, who is willing to make hard choices. Unconventional, magnificent, willing to bend laws of the United Earth to do what she thinks is right. We don't have the Prime Directive yet. Nor major procedures for the Starfleet. We even did not have a Starfleet at all! It's Spacefleet commanded by the Spaceflight Command, a subordinate of UESPA. They are making their first steps into space. Who would they choose if not someone actually mad?"

"Q: Why Claudia Black?

A: At first we wanted to hire someone more known in the science fiction and Star Trek. But then, we watched some Voyager episodes for an inspiration that we could use for Enterprise. I saw Claudia Black fighting hand-to-hand fight against Borg drones while shouting at them and I said: "We need her!". Casting went marvelous. We gave her Reilly's line from the conversation with Ambassador Soval and asked her to read it. There was no other actor to give that amount of energy, passion and power to the script."
 
Vala Mal Doran as the captain of the Enterprise?

Kirk-like penchant for hitting on anything that moves? Check.
Prone to making reckless decisions? Check.
 
Vala Mal Doran as the captain of the Enterprise?

Kirk-like penchant for hitting on anything that moves? Check.
Prone to making reckless decisions? Check.

In my opinion Enterprise was lacking an uber-Kirk character. His disregard to the Federation laws he did not like, reckless decisions, throwing away the Prime Directive had to be modelled after some sort of historical person. Who would fit better in that role than Captain Vala Mal Doran? Someone who would laugh at Vulcan's face, insult an Andorian, hit a Klingon in his face or liberate female Kzinti breaking all Spacefleet procedures and creating diplomatic incident only because she thought it was right? Let's throw all the laws beyond airlock, it is a lady of Enterprise at the helm. She has to be a hero for Captain Kirk. Crew of the Enterprise would be the first one in a deep space. Without Starfleet regulations, without Federation, without Prime Directive. They are making their first steps in space. Who would go if not someone insane (or deeply interested in that)?
 
Ex Starfleet Academy Instructor: Ah yes, how could anyone forget James Tiberius Kirk. Always fancied himself as the new Florence Riley. Always fancied himself full stop.
 
Ex Starfleet Academy Instructor: Ah yes, how could anyone forget James Tiberius Kirk. Always fancied himself as the new Florence Riley. Always fancied himself full stop.

The best of it is a fact that every Star Trek sieries/film was minimalistic in a depiction of the Federation's history. Thanks to that, writers, fandom novelists, filmmakers can place their own story in a bigger Trek lore. We haven't heard yet about James T. Kirk in Academy (besides Kobayashi Maru and few memories), what if he became fascinated by Reilly's figure? She could even live well into 2250s and he could met her while young!
 
Forgotten races of Original Series used in Enterprise: Part I - Matriarchy of Kalanda
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Kalandan
While not mentioned by name of species, Kalandans still appears in a Star Trek: Enterprise.

Kalandans are governed by a powerful, semi-democratic interstellar state named Matriarchy. Their history is divided between: Pre-History, Chemical, Nuclear and Warp (names of periods were translated into English). Pre-history extends to the time when men ruled over women, then men and women became equal. It ends with a Revolution that brought Matriarchy to power. While men has right to vote and to work, their choice of jobs is limited due to "unhealthy environement" and "limited brain volume for more scientific position" - thus, they are strongly discouraged from pursuing the STEM fields of research. Married man is given a second name - masculinized version of his wife's first name - which subsequently replaced his own during the rest of his life (or marriage). [1]

During Chemical Era, fossil fuels of the Homeworld were used as the main source of energy. During these years, the Matriarchy colonized and terraformed indigenous solar system. Nuclear Era saw the development of the first interstellar vehicles - a sleeper ships - which have colonized nearby Solar Systems and replaced fossil fuels with a fission/fussion reactions. On 1735 BC, Kalanda women have discovered warp drive, began an unification of interstellar outposts and rapid expansion into the space. Around 2139 artificial disease wrecked their population, killing 99.99% of inhabitants.

On 2157 damaged UESPA Enterprise fell into highly unstable wormhole and was hailed by Nezna - last, non-infected Matriarchal starship. In exchange for help in recreating the wormhole, Enterprise's technicians helped to repair Nezna while Cpt. Reilly began to learn basics of Kalandan history. Due to ban on spelling the Kalanda name, name of the species, name and location of the homeworld remained unknown for the United Earth. Due to ongoing Earth-Romulan War and the battle of Vulcan, Spaceflight Command deemed Matriarchy as non-essential to be further explored despite Florence Reilly's rage.

(ENT:"Reilly's Dream")

Few thousands Kalanda women who had survived the pandemic, exiled themselves toward Andromeda Galaxy to restart Matriarchy. One of them, Losira[2] initiated self-destruction of nearly all artificial planets of Kalanda leaving only one of them - with a farewell message and anti-intruder program.

Some officers of Spacefleet consider a report on Matriarchy as a dream or joke performed by Captain Reilly.

(ENT:"These are the Voyages")

[1] Well, all of that happened in our Earth's timeline during thousands of years for human women. The Handmaid's Tale is based upon that concept.

[2] The same one who had killed Starfleet crewmen of Kirk's Enterprise.
 
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Forgotten races of TNG used in Enterprise
Myrmidonians

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"Myrmidon had been mentioned by Vash - a Human archeaologist and former member of the Federation Archaeology Council in The Next Generation episode 'Q-Less'."

Myrmidonians are warp-capable, proto-Vulcan humanoid species originating from the Confederation of Myrmidon with a capital on Myrmidon III. They have small population of 3 billions with vast majority living on their homeworld and small parts on the colonies within the same solar system. Advancement of the sublight impulse propulsion allowed them to establish small colonies on the four planets within the same solar system. They were unaware of extraterrestial life's existence.

Myrmidon is ruled by the First Mother aided by the advisory organ of the Congregation of Mothers.

(ENT:"Rise of the Ancients")

Six months later, Myrmidon was engulfed in a deadly disease that killed 600 millions people during three weeks of pandemic. Despite orders of non-interference, Captain Florence Reilly transported large amount of medicine to help them, thus revealing existence of the United Earth and interstellar civilizations. The center of an episode was a court martial of Cpt. Reilly by the United Earth Supreme Court where she had strongly defended "the right to intervene in an event of a mass extiction, pandemic or misery of other species". Considered as one of the best episodes ever made in the Star Trek franchise, similar to "The Measure of Man".

(ENT:"Non-Interference")

Created by Ronald Moore, assistant producer to the Star Trek:Enterprise who had overtaken most of the works over series after Berman's death and Braga's injuries - both resulting from the fatal car accident. He had brought Manny Coto, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens to the series with Ira Steven Behr as a consultant.
 
Rick Berman [1945-2001]
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Rick Berman
[1945-2001]
Richard Keith Berman was the first producer of Star Trek Enterprise. On January 3, drunken driver hit his car at the speed of 80 kilometers per hour. While Brannon Braga survived the crash by only breaking his legs, Berman died instantly.
 
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